Communicable Diseases

Communicable diseases are the world’s biggest killers of children and among the top causes of death for adults in the developing world. Collectively, they claim more than 15 million lives a year with over 80% of these deaths in developing countries. Reversing communicable disease epidemics is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Results depend on evidence-based disease control programs and broader efforts to strengthen the capacity of health systems to assure predictable and sustainable financing and service delivery.

As new communicable diseases such as avian flu and sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerge as significant threats to human life and the global economy, and major killers such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis continue to spread and become resistant to treatment, strengthening health systems’ capacity to detect, monitor, and mitigate the spread of communicable diseases is paramount.

There is growing consensus that insufficient and poorly managed human resources for health capacity is a key constraint. Specific efforts to improve countries’ capacity to achieve communicable disease outcomes must be integrated with the country’s overall health program and be aligned with efforts in other sectors that influence health, including water and sanitation, education, and agriculture.

We (World Bank) committed US$334 million to prevent, control, and treat, communicable diseases during fiscal year 2006 (July 1, 2000—June 30, 2006).

We moved quickly to help relieve the disruption caused by the Avian Influenza by working with partner agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to needy countries.

We champion partnerships to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, river blindness and other tropical diseases and to expand immunization programs.

We are taking a lead on innovative financing mechanisms, supporting the G8 as it explores Advance Market Commitments to accelerate access to priority new vaccines.

We intensified support for malaria control through the Booster Program.

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Communicable Diseases
By Emmanuel Ayomide Praise